Improvement in corn-huskers



CARVER & BAKER.

Corn Husker.

Patented Apr. 11, 1871.

N PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

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V ETRASTUS n. cAavna or 'HUMBERSTCNE, .GANADm AND-GEORGE n. BAKER, or BUFFALO, NEWYORK.

Letters Patent No. 113,495, dated April 11, 1871 uv paovsmsprr m coRN-HUsKERs.

The Schedule referred toin these Letters Patent and making part-of the same.

We, EBASTUS H. CARVER, formerly a resident of Preble, in the State of New York, and now residing at Humberstone, in the conntyof Welland, Province -of- Ontario, Oanada, and GEORGE M. BAKER, of the city of Bufi'alo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Uorn-Husking Machines, of which the following is a specification,

Our improvement relates to that class of cornhnsking machines in which the ear is severed from the'stalk by means of flattened tethattached to a foot or hand-lever, and the ear detached from the husks by means of a flipper or bell-crank lever piv oted to the arm which severs the ear.

- The invention consists of the bell-crank flipper,

when pivoted to the teeth so as to'enable both to be adjusted together on the end of the actuating lever, whereby the throw or movement of the, flipper is regulated.

In the accompanying drawing Figure I is a side elevation.

Figure His a plan.

Figure III is a front elevation with the benchliu 'cross -section.

Figure 1V is a flipper.

Like letters designate like parts 1n each of the detached view of the teeth and figures. V

A is a bench, supported on legs a a in any suitable manner, and forming .the frame of the machine, and a seat, a, for the operator.

A is a smalltable resting on supports k-k above the bench.

slotted and-formed into sharp flattened teeth, 01, (preferably three,) as shown. The plate D is fastened to the end of the-arm b, on one side thereof, by means of a set-bolt, .E, passing through the plate, and a slot, f, in the end of the arm, so as to permit of a vertical adjustment of the plate, the. contiguous surfaces being corrugated or otherwise roughened to insurea more firm connection. i

G is the flipper for separating the ear after it has been severed frorn'the husks. It is, of bell-crank form v and is loosely pivoted to the upper end of the plate l .D, as represented.

The arm 9, which projects downward, is flattened on the side next to the platc'D, and pointed, so that when the flipper is in the normal position shown'in Fig. IV, which its own gravity causes it to assume, this arm will lie against the side of the plate and the central tooth thereof.

I is a bracket-arm attached to the upper side of the b'ench,and forms a bearing against which the-arm g of the flipper strikes.

a. is a slot in the table for the passage of the teeth (1.,

J is the cast seat at the right of the slot It is adjusted and se'dnred to the bench by screws passing through slots jj, as shown in FigIIL.

The operation of our improved machine is as fol- ,lows:

The operator sits a-stride of the bench on the. seat a, facing the machine, with the corn to be h'usked at his right side. Taking-hold of a stalk with his right hand a little below the car, he places the same on the table A, and draws the ear toward the right until the buttof the ear'is brought in contact with the edge of the seat J, on which 7 the stalk rests. Pressing with the feet against the lever B, the teeth at and flipperatta'ched descends, the teeth first penetrating and severing the stalk, when the arm g of the flipper strikes the bearingarm I, causing the lower and. pointed arm g, which has penetrated the stalk with the teeth, to fly outward, carrying with it the nowsevered ear anddetaching it from the husks.

The pressure of the feet on the lever B being removed, the spring H returns the parts to their first position.

The flipper being pivoted to the tooth-plate D, the

adjustment of the latter up or down adjusts the flipper so as to cause it to strike the bearing 1 at the proper time, which should be the moment the car has been severed from the stalk.

We do not claim, broadly, theeombinamon of the flipper with the other'parts; but

What we'claim is- In combination with the am; b and bearing 1, the flipper G and tooth-plate D, when the latter are pivoted together and made adjustable on said arm, as

and for the purpose specified. v

ERASTUS H. CARVER.

GEORGE M. BAKER. Witnesses: I

EnwAnD W L'EELM, Jno J. Romp. 

